Our Team

As monetary policy experts and consultants devoted to your success, we are committed to forging individual and lasting relationships with each of our clients. We regularly exchange ideas virtually and in-person in major financial hubs. Indeed, one of our favorite aspects of our work is the personal interaction we have with our clients.

LHMeyer principally works with hedge fund managers and global banks, while also serving a variety of institutional investors including asset managers, pension funds, and insurance companies. Our clients are strategists, traders, and portfolio managers focused on asset allocation, fixed income, and global macro.

Who are we, and why do our clients work with us?

The adventure began when Larry was a professor in the economics department at Washington University in St. Louis. For 27 years, Larry taught macroeconomics and monetary theory to undergraduates and graduate students, winning several teaching awards along the way. During this time, his understanding of monetary policy was further deepened by a year as a visiting scholar at the St. Louis Fed and then at NY Fed. After a storied teaching career and a stint on the FOMC, Larry decided to begin his consulting practice.

Larry Meyer

Chairman, Co-Founder 

Larry Meyer served as a Governor on the Federal Reserve Board from June 1996 through January 2002. While serving as a Fed governor, Dr. Meyer became widely known as an influential member of the Federal Open Market Committee and built a reputation for independent thinking and straight talk about monetary policy. He has been widely acclaimed for his ability to bring clarity to the chaos of economic data and to demystify the art and science of monetary policymaking.

He was also a professor of economics and a former chairman of the economics department at Washington University, where he taught for 27 years before joining the Federal Reserve Board. During that period, he spent a year as a visiting scholar at both the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is a fellow of the National Association of Business Economics and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and has served on the advisory panel to the Congressional Budget Office. He is the author of A Term at the Fed: An Insider’s View, published by HarperBusiness in July 2004.

Larry and his long-term colleagues, Derek Tang and Kevin Burgett, co-founded Monetary Policy Analytics, Inc. dba LHMeyer. They were Larry’s team at Monetary Policy Insights before they began LHMeyer, Since its founding, LHMeyer has expanded the scope of Monetary Policy Insights and increased the degree of client interaction.

Derek Tang

Economist, CEO, Co-Founder

Derek Tang leads the LHMeyer research team in Washington, D.C., where he forecasts Fed policy developments and provides bespoke policy analysis to institutional investors. He closely monitors and forecasts the Fed’s balance sheet policy. Prior to co-founding LHMeyer, Derek was an economist at Macroeconomic Advisers (now part of IHS Markit), where he was trained by former Fed senior leadership and top Board staffers on the Fed’s approach. His opinion is often sought by top decision makers and cited in the international financial press. Derek was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and speaks English and Chinese.

Kevin Burgett

Senior Economist, Co-Founder

Kevin is co-founder and senior economist at Monetary Policy Analytics. He leads the team’s analysis of the incoming economic data and implications for the macroeconomic and monetary policy outlooks, which includes providing our take each month on the jobs report. He performs scenario analysis using the Fed’s primary large-scale macroeconomic model, FRB/US. Before joining MPA, Kevin was an economist at Macroeconomic Advisers. Kevin graduated from the University of Michigan with majors in mathematics and economics.

Emma Dempsey

Chief Operating Officer

Emma Dempsey is LHMeyer’s chief operating officer. In this role, she oversees client relations, business operations, and marketing. Her top priority is ensuring that the firm’s clients are uniquely informed by and engaged with our service. She connects with clients on a regular basis to deepen relationships, highlight our latest research, and seek out opportunities for growth. In addition, she continues to refine and build LHMeyer’s brand and media presence. Prior to joining the firm, she worked in higher education development and donor relations. She graduated from Wake Forest University.